Topic: Name my Business for .1 BTC (Read 3136 times)

Sounds like busy times.:-)

Guess it's wise to put it at the back-burner for a while, instead of doing a half-hearted try. Best of luck anyways.

But then therein lies the fun,
Cleaning up when you're all done,
and recycling it for someone

That's caused by the gluten-laden buns.

And it gives one diarrhea.

Bruno's Brats has such a fantastic aroma, grilled in South Dakota, one can smell them in South Korea.

Let that be a lesson to everyone-- life always finds a way to get in the way. Do not hesitate to try things early.

Enter Bruno's Brats.

So I decided to go with Fantastic Franks and even commissioned a logo.


I registered the domains, snagged the Facebook page, and started all the business paperwork. Then my wife decided it was time to have our baby. Which would be great if he wasnt three months early... So we were in the hospital a week waiting for him to be born, and since he will be in the NICU for quite some time we are making a lot of trips back and forth. During that time, a job that I did not think I was going to get called back and proved me wrong. That starts the 24th and includes being gone for 5 weeks of training. So with all of that, and me taking the GMAT in Sept. to try and get into B-School part time in the spring, I decided to hold off of the cart.

I really wanted to push forward with this, but wow does shit ever change quick. I did have a few employees lined up to work for me that were willing (and can be trusted) to take on more responsibility, but why start a business when I know I wont have time for it? So as of right now I am going to see how things go the rest of the year, get settled in and stuff smoothed out, and try again ~Feb. That way it wont be a rush to build and establish but will still be ready for prime Hot Dog season.

Just as a side note: not only was I albeit set for the local county fair and in discussion with the community pool, I got the local GameStop interested in contracting me for big event midnight releases.

Frankly Delicious (insert food items)

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I was going to diss the comment--till I saw it was Matthew's, thus refrained 'cause I Like U! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CoN29hyu4w

Disagree. It's better to get many opinions and ideas and then throw away the bad ones than to severely limit your sources of ideas.

There is something like this in germany called: "Best Wurscht in Town"

Hungry Franks

hot  Franks Franks  dog

"Best Wurst"

Name it german 

Frank´s Wurst!

HOTGOD!

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It may seem like there is some collective experience here for your business, but don't forget that this is the community that put millions of dollars into Bitcoinica, Pirateat40, BFL, etc etc etc.

I recommend just doing this alone and giving us the good news when it's going well and asking *specific users* whom you trust and have proven to you they have experience in relative business matters for some assistance when you need it.

So my initial thoughts and questions are:

The Hot Dog Cart is actually a low-cost market test of sorts. I need experience and want to see how everything works before moving to the next stage. And I plan on basically scaling up until I have my Cheesesteak Truck. I deleted the original post because I didnt like how the thread was moving and it had my entire menu along with a few other things, but I posted asking for advice here: http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/Food-Truck-Pitch-m740332.aspx So if this is successful, rather than opening more and more carts, I actually planned on just adding to the existing one until it turns into a truck.

So even though no matter what happens, the community will always be my boss, do you mean basically the forum users decide the next directions of the business?

And some of the things you mentioned I had intended doing. In fact, after the first few "shows" I was going to decide if I should get a Droid just for the cart. I might have to have employees right from the beginning, and theres no way Im not accepting Bitcoin. Plus, I want to use Square since almost no food vendors inside fairs accept Credit Cards. With employees, having a dedicated phone rather than ask them to use theirs or something would be so much easier. To market these advantages I was going to slap some big stickers on the side (Bitcoin logo and traditional CC acceptance).

As for the vouchers, I think those would be albeit useless to be honest. Im in a fairly rural area, and even though I plan on operating at large fairs and such, Im not sure how useful they would be to a global audience. Then it would just be sentimental, and who is really going to cherish that? On the other hand, I do plan on having t-shirts made right off the bat, and even mentioned to my wife giving a few away to people as long as they wear them to the fair the next time they come. So, would a branded tee shipped to anywhere be a better incentive?

Im def. open to discussing this more though.